Magic: a theory from the South

"This new translation of Sud e magia, his 1959 study of ceremonial magic and witchcrafts in southern Italy, shows how de Martino is not interested in the question of whether magic is rational or irrational but rather in why it came to be perceived as a problem of knowledge in the first place. S...

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主要作者: De Martino, Ernesto 1908-1965 (Author)
其他作者: Zinn, Dorothy Louise (Translator)
格式: Print 圖書
語言:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
出版: Chicago, Ill. HAU Books [2015]
In:Year: 2015
叢編:HAU books
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Italien (Süd) / 法術 / 民間信仰
IxTheo Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
KBJ Italy
Further subjects:B Manners and customs
B Ceremonial Behavior
B Disease
B Social life and customs
B Magic
B Ethnology
B Basilicata
B History
B Magic (Italy, Southern)
B Basilicata (Italy)
B Italy, Southern
B Folklore
B Italy
B Folklore (Italy, Southern)
B Religion and Medicine
B Basilicata (Italy) Social life and customs
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總結:"This new translation of Sud e magia, his 1959 study of ceremonial magic and witchcrafts in southern Italy, shows how de Martino is not interested in the question of whether magic is rational or irrational but rather in why it came to be perceived as a problem of knowledge in the first place. Setting his exploration within his wider, pathbreaking theorization of ritual, as well as in the context of his politically sensitive analysis of the global south's historical encounters with Western science, he presents the development of magic and ritual in Enlightenment Naples as paradigmatic example of the complex dynamics between dominant and subaltern cultures. Far ahead of its time, Magic is still relevant as anthropologists continue to wrestle with modernity's relationship with magical thinking"--Back cover
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-200 and index
實物描述:xvi, 204 Seiten, Illustrationen, 23 cm
ISBN:099050509X